In 2022,****** out of 10 Poles with high FOMO (fear of missing out)* checked smartphone screen notifications at every opportunity. In the general group, the percentage of such people was ** percent.**** out of 10 respondents with high FOMO could not imagine life without a smartphone.
* According to Andrew K.Przybylski, Kou Murayama, Cody R.DeHaan, Valerie Gladwell publication titled "Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out" - Fear of Missing Out, popularly referred to as FOMO is defined as a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent. FOMO is characterized by the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing.
Nomophobia is a situational phobia caused by the unavailability of a smartphone or the thought that one does not have it, cannot use it, or can lose it (Yildirim & Correia, 2015)
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